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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 5c3b769 | Fulfillment comes not in pursuit of happiness, but rather in pursuit of service. | service | Philip Yancey | |
| cec08c0 | The first nation to separate Christianity from government produced perhaps the most religious nation on earth. | Philip Yancey | ||
| 18152cc | God's gifts are best used when we give them away in serving those who have less. | serving-others | Philip Yancey | |
| a85c498 | Can we live now "as if" God is loving, gracious, merciful, and all-powerful, even while the blinders of time are obscuring our vision? The" | Philip Yancey | ||
| ded3908 | Jimmy Carter taught a Sunday school class throughout his presidency, winning the grudging respect of reporters who had once questioned his religious talk as a political ploy. Even so, he lost many Christians' votes to Ronald Reagan, the only U.S. president to have been divorced and who rarely attended church and gave little to charity, mainly because Reagan supported many of the favorite causes of the religious Right. | Philip Yancey | ||
| a0d1228 | and said, almost without thinking, "Well, of course, Philip, God was already present in the prison. I just had to make him visible." I have often thought of that line from Joanna, which would make a fine mission statement for all of us seeking to know and follow God. God is already present, in the most unexpected places. We just need to make God visible." | Philip Yancey | ||
| 01e8f88 | G. K. Chesterton once wrote, "All men matter. You matter. I matter. It's the hardest thing in theology to believe." | Philip Yancey | ||
| 8237b72 | Los seres humanos crecemos al luchar, trabajar y extendernos; en cierto sentido, la naturaleza humana tiene mas necesidad de problemas que de soluciones. | Philip Yancey | ||
| d15c19d | It has taken me years to distill the Gospel out of the subculture in which I first encountered it. Sadly, many of my friends gave up on the effort, never getting to Jesus because the pettiness of the church blocked the way. | Philip Yancey | ||
| 93848b1 | I have found consolation, for example, in C. S. Lewis's depiction in The Great Divorce of hell as a place that people choose, and continue to choose even when they end up there. As Milton's Satan put it, "Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven." | Philip Yancey | ||
| 317180e | see the confusion of politics and religion as one of the greatest barriers to grace. C. S. Lewis once said that almost all crimes of Christian history have come about when religion is confused with politics. Politics, which always runs by the rules of ungrace, allures us to trade away grace for power, a temptation the church has often been unable to resist. | Philip Yancey | ||
| fdfaff1 | According to Gallup polls, more Americans will pray this week than will exercise, drive a car, have sex, or go to work. Nine in ten of us pray regularly, and three out of four claim to pray every day. To | Philip Yancey | ||
| a1854ec | You do not have to sit outside in the dark. If, however, you want to look at the stars, you will find that darkness is required. The stars neither require it nor demand it. ANNIE DILLARD | Philip Yancey | ||
| 8e6980a | Where is the church when it hurts? If the church is doing its job--binding wounds, comforting the grieving, offering food to the hungry--I don't think people will wonder so much where God is when it hurts. They'll know where God is: in the presence of God's people on earth. | Philip Yancey | ||
| f656714 | Because of Jesus we need never question God's desire for intimacy. Does God really want close contact with us? Jesus gave up Heaven for it. | Philip Yancey | ||
| abc101d | positioned myself. I once described the people I tend to hear from as "borderlanders," those caught in a no-person's-land between faith and disbelief. Some approach the church cautiously, attracted to Jesus but turned off by his followers. Some have fled the church due to bad experiences, yet still yearn for the consolation they felt there. I've spent time in the borderlands myself and want to honor those wandering on the edges, the misfits.. | Philip Yancey | ||
| 177cf6a | The West too may find that prosperity and self-indulgence are not sufficient to satisfy human needs. | Philip Yancey | ||
| d16ac27 | If it's not setting you free and enlarging life, then it's not Jesus' message. If it doesn't sound like good news, it's not the gospel. | Philip Yancey | ||
| c016df4 | Every word I say. Everything I do. You may take it as encouragement, | Meljean Brook | ||
| bae9b16 | But should not atheists have an equal obligation to explain the origin of pleasure in a world of randomness and meaninglessness? | christianity origin-of-pleasure | Philip Yancey | |
| 2b07a4f | Theologian Hart goes on to note a secret irony hidden in the arguments of the skeptics: "They would never have occurred to consciences that had not in some profound way been shaped by the moral universe of a Christian culture." | Philip Yancey | ||
| 26e62ef | When we make condescending judgments, or proclaim lofty words that don't translate into action, or simply speak without first listening, we fail to love -- and thus deter a thirsty world from Living Water. The good news about God's grace goes unheard. | Philip Yancey | ||
| b84fe0d | Modern humanity does not perceive the world as worth God dying for. We Christians must demonstrate it. | Philip Yancey | ||
| 2a16425 | The church of my own childhood, as well as that of my present and my future, comprises deeply flawed human beings struggling toward an unattainable ideal. | Philip Yancey | ||
| e21c84d | Only Christianity dares to make God's love unconditional. | Philip Yancey | ||
| 601fabc | The phrase "the body of Christ," expresses well what we are called to do: to represent in flesh what Christ is like, especially to those in need. The" | Philip Yancey | ||
| 1a5d87a | I used to feel spiritually inferior because I had not experienced the more spectacular manifestations of the Spirit and could not point to any bona fide "miracles" in my life. Increasingly, though, I have come to see that what I value may differ greatly from what God values. Jesus, often reluctant to perform miracles, considered it progress when he departed earth and entrusted the mission to his flawed disciples. Like a proud parent, God se.. | god-s-power god-s-will humanity miracles | Philip Yancey | |
| 557f255 | not | Philip Yancey | ||
| c87d2e9 | the healthiest body is the one that feels the pain of its weakest parts. In | Philip Yancey | ||
| 5dea75e | Humility is the real Christian virtue," says Nouwen. "When we come to realize that . . . only God saves, then we are free to serve, then we can live truly humble lives." | Philip Yancey | ||
| d4f2631 | A lo largo de toda la Biblia, en especial en los libros de los profetas, vemos a Dios debatirse en un conflicto interno. Por una parte, amaba apasionadamente a las personas que habia creado; por otra, sentia el terrible impulso de destruir al Mal que la esclavizaba. En la cruz, Dios resolvio ese conflicto interno, porque en ella su Hijo absorbio la fuerza destructiva para transformarla en amor. Citas | Philip Yancey | ||
| 2e1b541 | suffering can serve as instruments to teach us the value of dependence, and unless we learn dependence we will never experience grace. The apostle Paul gave the Corinthians an | Philip Yancey | ||
| 4557876 | Jesus used small things to describe his kingdom: a sprinkling of yeast that causes the whole loaf to rise, a pinch of salt that preserves a slab of meat, the smallest seed in the garden that grows into a great bush in which the birds of the air come to nest. Practices that used to be common--human sacrifice, slavery, duels to the death, child labor, exploitation of women, racial apartheid, debtors' prisons, the killing of the elderly and in.. | Philip Yancey | ||
| 575bf95 | The uncommitted share many of our core values, but if we do not live out those values in a compelling way, we will not awaken a thirst for their ultimate Source. | Philip Yancey | ||
| 605b6d8 | Suffering can never ultimately be meaningless, because God has shared it. | Philip Yancey | ||
| e627d3a | As a writer I have received my share of mixed reviews. Even so, as I read through stacks of vituperative letters, I got a strong sense for why the world does not automatically associate the word "grace" with evangelical Christians. Noxious" | Philip Yancey | ||
| aaf7314 | Be careful," warned Nietzsche, "lest in fighting the dragon you become the dragon." I" | Philip Yancey | ||
| 30e33ac | I see the confusion of politics and religion as one of the greatest barriers to grace. C. S. Lewis once said that almost all crimes of Christian history have come about when religion is confused with politics. Politics, which always runs by the rules of ungrace, allures us to trade away grace for power, a temptation the church has often been unable to resist. Those | Philip Yancey | ||
| b3a223f | What would it take for church to become known as a place where grace is "on tap" | Philip Yancey | ||
| 732a689 | Dorothy Day used to say that we should live in such a way that our lives wouldn't make much sense if the gospel were not true. | Philip Yancey | ||
| f36d134 | As Dorothy Day put it, "I really only love God as much as I love the person I love the least." | Philip Yancey | ||
| 927834d | Jesus says in effect, 'Do you want to know what it feels like to be God? When one of those two-legged humans pays attention to me, it feels like I just reclaimed my most valuable possession, which I had given up for lost.' To God himself, it feels like the discovery of a lifetime. | Philip Yancey | ||
| 10e61c1 | God welcomes home anyone who will have him and, in fact, has made the first move already. | Philip Yancey | ||
| 0fb26bf | Rather than looking back nostalgically on a time when Christians wielded more power, I suggest another approach: that we regard ourselves as subversives operating within the broader culture. | Philip Yancey |